Abstract [en]

The vision of the project was the development of a web portal, designed for professional networking and community building directed at women. The idea was to gather small networks under a common platform which would combine the communicative asset of a community site with the functional asset of a recruitment site.

This report describes how a team of web developers builds and further develops a combination of a community and a professional network. The utilization of the "incremental build model" for dealing with the requirements are presented, including the development of the product and how the project model “PDLC” was used to manage the entire lifecycle of the product. The requirements could continuously be checked against the vision of the product by managing them in this iterative and incremental methodology. The technical problems that arose during the development of the product are discussed from the perspective of the development team with the client’s requirements and vision in mind. Further, lessons learned in the project concerning the technological development and the experiences of the methodology and model used are presented. Finally, conclusions are drawn about how the project was carried out, alternative solutions, and how further development of the product could be made. The outcome of the project is an easy to use portal for professional and social activities where the requested functionality is present. A weakness in the product is the graphic design. A resource with expertise in that area had been necessary.